Cercle et Carré

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association with Abstraction-Création

The immediate predecessor of the Abstraction-Création group was the
Cercle et Carré (“Circle and Square”) group, founded by Michel Seuphor and Joaquin Torres-Garcia in 1930. Artists Georges Vantongerloo, Jean Hélion, and Auguste Herbin worked together to form a similar association, and by 1931 they managed to attract over 40 members to a group they called...

exhibit by Mondrian

Although he did not exhibit frequently and rarely held a one-man show, in the early 1930s he became affiliated with
Cercle et Carré and with Abstraction-Création, both of which were influential international groups of artists who promoted and exhibited abstract art. In 1934 he met the American artist Harry Holtzman and the English painter Ben Nicholson. Nicholson urged him to...